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Of immortality, the soul, when well employed, is incurious. It is so well, that it is sure that it will be well. It asks no questions of the Supreme Power.

Of immortality, the soul, when well employed, is incurious. It is so well, that it is sure that it will be well. It asks no questions of the Supreme Power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Soul, Immortality, Wells
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2356, Delphi Classics

We learn that God IS; that he is in me; and that all things are shadows of him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Shadow, All Things
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.70, Penguin

But the man and woman of seventy assume to know all, they have outlived their hope, they renounce aspiration, accept the actual for the necessary and talk down to the young. Let them then become organs of the Holy Ghost; let them be lovers; let them behold truth; and their eyes are uplifted, their wrinkles smoothed, they are perfumed again with hope and power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Eye, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.74, Penguin

The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holy-days of a diviner presence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Men, Holy Days
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1528, Delphi Classics

As every pool reflects the image of the sun, so every thought and thing restores us an image and creature of the supreme Good. Theuniverse is perforated by a million channels for his activity. All things mount and mount.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Sun, Pool
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.342

Let us stun and astonish the intruding rabble of men and books and institutions by a simple declaration of the divine fact. Bid the invaders take the shoes from off their feet, for God is here within.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Book, Simple
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.176, Harvard University Press

Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care. O my brothers, God exists. There is a soul at the centre of nature, and over the will of every man, so that none of us can wrong the universe.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Brother, Believe
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.44, Penguin

There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Power, Ends
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.63, Penguin

The time is coming when all men will see that the gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering, excluding sanctity, buta sweet, natural goodness, a goodness like thine and mine, and that so invites thine and mine to be and to grow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Sweet, Men
Address in Divinity College, Cambridge, americanliterature.com. July 15, 1838.

If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Heart, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.110, Coyote Canyon Press

In all conversation between two persons, tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party or common nature is not social; it is impersonal; is God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Party, Two
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2011). “Natural Abundance: Ralph Waldo Emerson's Guide to Prosperity”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this race is to be honored for itself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Race, Quality, Genius
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.775, Modern Library

In our definitions, we grope after the spiritual by describing it as invisible. The true meaning of spiritual is real; that law which executes itself, which works without means, and which cannot be conceived as not existing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
God, Spiritual, Real
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.430

The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorageis quicksand.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Change, Anchors, Perception
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.88, Courier Corporation

Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Change, Law, Secret
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.40, Courier Corporation

All loss, all pain, is particular; the universe remains to the heart unhurt.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pain, Heart, Loss
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.305, Library of America

If I quake, what matters it what I quake at? Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the person, and, if we are capable of fear, will readily find terrors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sex, Fear, What Matters
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.210

Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fate, People, Use
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.13, Harvard University Press

The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we callFate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Running, Fate, Elements

Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough. One can not be sure of himself and his fortune an hour, but he may be whisked off into some pitiable or ridiculous plight.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fate, Men, Plight
Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.337, Harvard University Press

It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men, Charity, Blunders
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.353, Рипол Классик

Love should make joy; but our benevolence is unhappy. Our Sunday-schools, and churches, and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. We pain ourselves to please nobody.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pain, School, Sunday
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.307, Library of America

Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dream, Mistake, Ambition
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.27, Harvard University Press

It is said that when manners are licentious, a revolution is always near: the virtue of woman being the main girth and bandage ofsociety; because a man will not lay up an estate for children any longer than whilst he believes them to be his own.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sex, Children, Believe
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.373, Harvard University Press

In certain men digestion and sex absorb the vital force, and the stronger these are, the individual is so much weaker. The more ofthese drones perish, the better for the hive.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sex, Men, Stronger
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.312

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